Wikidata Label Lookup

A short script to replace Wikidata URLs with their label.

Before

SELECT ?item ?pic
WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q146 .
    ?item wdt:P18 ?pic
}

After

SELECT ?item ?pic
WHERE {
    ?item <instance of> <house cat> .
    ?item <image> ?pic
}

Usage

Terminal

echo wdt:P31 | ./wikidata-label-lookup.py

Vim

To replace all URLs in current buffer:

:%!./wikidata-label-lookup.py